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Young Italian Woman, with ‘Puck’ the Dog
Also titled Jonge Italiaanse vrouw met hond Puck
Thérèse Schwartze (Amsterdam, 1851–1918)
c. 1885 - c. 1886
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 144 cm x width 103 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A.G. van Anrooy Bequest, Kampen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Known as Fortunata, this woman was one of the many professional Italian models working in Paris in the late 19th century. Schwartze started this painting while sojourning there in 1884 and exhibited it a year later in Amsterdam, having added the dog in the meanwhile. For a young female artist at the time, studying in Paris was as unconventional as pursuing a career as an artist. However, Schwartze pressed on and became a highly successful portraitist.
